Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to investigate the relation between the value/growth anomaly and the external financing anomaly by considering an expanded value/growth indicator: free cash flow yield (free cash flows scaled by price). Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the informational content of retained and distributed earnings for future profitability and stock returns. Design/methodology/approach – The paper utilizes firm‐level cross‐sectional persistent regressions, Mishkin's econometric framework...

In this paper, we extend the work of Hirshleifer, Hou, Teoh and Zhang (2004) on the “sustainability effect” by directly linking the implications of NOA (net operating assets) and NOA components for the sustainability of current earnings performance with future stock returns. After...